Puncturing device and anchoring device

ABSTRACT

A puncturing device and an anchoring device, the puncturing device including: a puncturing needle, an inflatable anchoring balloon, and a catheter which passes through a proximal end and distal end of the anchoring balloon, the puncturing needle being movably accommodated within the catheter; in a filled state, a central area of an end portion of the distal end of the anchoring balloon is depressed towards the proximal end to form a depressed area, and a distal end of the catheter is located within the depressed area. The anchoring device includes the anchoring balloon and the catheter. The puncturing device may improve the accuracy and success rate of puncturing, and after puncturing is complete, an expansion balloon may be transported along a guide wire to expand a puncturing opening by simply withdrawing the puncturing needle and a push rod.

FIELD

The present application relates to the field of interventional medicaldevices, and more particularly relates to a puncturing device and ananchoring device.

BACKGROUND

Use of a covered stent in a special lesion locus, such as an aorticarch, a coeliac trunk, bilateral renal arteries or a superior mesentericartery, may affect the blood supply of an arterial branch vessel. Thecovered stent is subjected to in-situ fenestration in the surgicalprocedure by an energy or mechanical method to produce an expected hole,and then a branch stent is delivered to this hole to abut with thecovered stent, so as to overcome the dependency of a treatment solutionon an anatomical structure of a human branch vessel.

However, an existing mechanical fenestration device has the followingdefects: (1) when a puncturing needle is in contact with a coatingmembrane of the stent, the coating membrane may be sunken into the stentdue to its flexibility to possibly cause the puncturing needle to bendor slide on the surface of the coating membrane; and (2) when thecoating membrane is sunken into the stent under an acting force of thepuncturing needle, a distance between the distal end of the puncturingneedle and the contralateral coating membrane and a distance between thedistal end of the puncturing needle and the vascular wall are extremelyshort, so that if an operator exerts an extremely high puncturing force,the puncturing needle would still continuously move forwards aftermaking a puncturing success, which results in a relatively highpossibility that the puncturing needle punctures the contralateralcoating membrane or the vascular wall.

SUMMARY

One of the objectives of the present application is to provide apuncturing device which may prevent a puncturing needle from movingradially during puncturing and improve the puncturing accuracy andsuccess rate, and may prevent a coating membrane from being sunken intoa stent during puncturing, so as to prolong a distance between thedistal end of the puncturing needle and a contralateral coating membraneor a vascular wall and reduce the possibility of damage to thecontralateral coating membrane or the vascular wall.

Another objective of the present application is to provide an anchoringdevice which may keep a puncturing needle from moving radially afterbeing expanded and improve the puncturing accuracy and success rate, andmay prevent a coating membrane from being sunken into a stent duringpuncturing, so as to prolong a distance between the distal end of thepuncturing needle and a contralateral coating membrane or a vascularwall and reduce the possibility of damage to the contralateral coatingmembrane or the vascular wall.

The present application provides a puncturing device, including apuncturing needle, an inflatable anchoring balloon and a catheterpassing through a proximal end and a distal end of the anchoringballoon. The puncturing needle is movably arranged in the catheter. In afilled state, a central region of the distal end part of the anchoringballoon is sunken towards the proximal end to form a sunken region, anda distal end of the catheter is located in the sunken region.

In one embodiment, an axial length of the anchoring balloon rangesbetween 5 mm and 20 mm.

In one embodiment, a distance between the distal end of the anchoringballoon and the distal end of the catheter along an axial direction ofthe catheter is less than or equal to 2 mm.

In one embodiment, the catheter is a multi-cavity tube having at leasttwo cavities. The multi-cavity tube includes an accommodating cavity anda filling cavity. The accommodating cavity axially passes through theanchoring balloon, and the puncturing needle is movably accommodated inthe accommodating cavity. A distal end of the filling cavity isaccommodated in the anchoring balloon, and a tube cavity of the fillingcavity is communicated with an inside of the anchoring balloon.

In one embodiment, a hardness of a part, covered by the anchoringballoon, of the catheter is lower than that of the other part of thecatheter.

In one embodiment, a length of the needle tip of the puncturing needleis less than or equal to 7 mm.

In one embodiment, the puncturing device further includes a handleconnected with the puncturing needle. The handle includes a proximal endhandle part and a distal end handle part which are opposite to eachother. The proximal end handle part includes a proximal end handle shafthaving an axial inner cavity and a proximal end handle ring connected toa side wall of the proximal end handle shaft. The axial inner cavity ofthe proximal end handle shaft passes through a proximal end face and adistal end face of the proximal end handle shaft. The distal end handlepart includes a distal end handle shaft having an axial inner cavity anda distal end handle ring connected to the side wall of a distal endhandle shaft. The axial inner cavity of the distal end handle shaftpasses through a proximal end face and a distal end face of the distalend handle shaft. The proximal end handle shaft is movably arranged inthe axial inner cavity of the distal end handle shaft in a penetratingmanner, and the distal end handle ring is closer to a proximal end ofthe puncturing needle than the proximal end handle ring.

In one embodiment, an outer profile of the part, accommodated in theaxial inner cavity of the distal end handle shaft, of the proximal endhandle shaft on a section perpendicular to an axial direction of theproximal end handle shaft is noncircular.

In one embodiment, the handle further includes a fastener arranged at adistal end of the distal end handle shaft and connected with a proximalend of the anchoring assembly.

In one embodiment, the puncturing device further includes a push rodconnected between the puncturing needle and the handle, and a proximalend of the push rod is fixedly accommodated in the axial inner cavity ofthe proximal end handle shaft.

In one embodiment, the push rod further includes a reinforcing tubearranged on the push rod. The reinforcing tube is arranged on therod-like part, close to the proximal end of the push rod, of the pushrod in a sleeving manner, and a hardness of the reinforcing tube ishigher than that of the rod-like part, close to the proximal end of thepush rod, of the push rod.

In one embodiment, an axial length of the reinforcing tube is less thanor equal to ⅓ of an axial length of the push rod.

The present application further provides an anchoring device, includingan inflatable anchoring balloon and a catheter passing through aproximal end and a distal end of the anchoring balloon. In a filledstate, a central region of the distal end part of the anchoring balloonis sunken towards the proximal end to form a sunken region, and a distalend of the catheter is located in the sunken region.

In one embodiment, an axial length of the anchoring balloon rangesbetween 5 mm and 20 mm.

In one embodiment, a distance between the distal end of the anchoringballoon and the distal end of the catheter along an axial direction ofthe catheter is less than or equal to 2 mm.

In one embodiment, a hardness of a part, covered by the anchoringballoon, of the catheter is lower than that of the other part of thecatheter.

Compared with the prior art, the present application at least has thefollowing beneficial effects that:

(1) according to the puncturing device provided by the presentapplication, the puncturing needle is threaded out from the distal endof the anchoring balloon; after the anchoring balloon is filled toexpand, the radial movement of the puncturing needle may be restrainedto achieve higher puncturing accuracy and higher success rate;

(2) according to the puncturing device provided by the presentapplication, after the anchoring balloon is filled to expand, thecentral region of the distal end part of the anchoring balloon has asunken region sunken from the distal end to the proximal end, and thedistal end of the catheter is located in the sunken region; in anin-situ fenestration process of a covered stent, the distal end part ofthe catheter abuts against a coating membrane of the punctured stent,and the elastic coating membrane is stressed by a pull force to form atension region, surrounded by the distal end face of the anchoringballoon, on the coating membrane; after the puncturing needle isthreaded out from the distal end of the anchoring balloon and in contactwith the coating membrane of this tension region, the coating membraneof the tension region is directly punctured by the puncturing needleinstead of being sunken into the stent, so that the puncturing successrate is increased; furthermore, as the coating membrane in the tensionregion may not be sunken into the stent, the distance between the distalend of the puncturing needle and the contralateral coating membrane andthe distance between the distal end of the puncturing needle and thevascular wall are prolonged, and then the possibility that thepuncturing needle still continuously moves forwards after making apuncturing success under the extremely high puncturing force to puncturethe contralateral coating membrane or the vascular wall is reduced; and

(3) according to the anchoring device provided by the presentapplication, the anchoring balloon may keep the puncturing needle frommoving radially after being expanded to improve the puncturing accuracyand success rate; and furthermore, as the central region of the distalend part of the anchoring balloon has the sunken region sunken from thedistal end to the proximal end, the distal end face of the anchoringballoon abuts against the coating membrane of the punctured stent in thein-situ fenestration process of the covered stent to prevent the coatingmembrane from being sunken into the stent during puncturing, whichprolongs the distance between the distal end of the puncturing needleand the contralateral coating membrane or the vascular wall and thenreduces the possibility of damage to the contralateral coating membraneor the vascular wall.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a front view of a puncturing device of an embodiment of thepresent application, the puncturing device including a puncturingassembly, an anchoring assembly and a delivery assembly;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the puncturing assembly in FIG. 1, thepuncturing assembly including a puncturing needle, a handle and a pushrod connected between the puncturing needle and the handle;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the puncturing needle and the push rodin FIG. 2;

FIG. 4a is a are sectional view of an embodiment of the push rod in FIG.2 on a section perpendicular to an axial direction;

FIG. 4b is a are sectional view of an embodiment of the push rod in FIG.2 on a section perpendicular to an axial direction;

FIG. 4c is a are sectional view of an embodiment of the push rod in FIG.2 on a section perpendicular to an axial direction;

FIG. 4d is a are sectional view of an embodiment of the push rod in FIG.2 on a section perpendicular to an axial direction;

FIG. 5a is a schematic diagram of a front view of the anchoring assemblyin FIG. 1, the anchoring assembly including an anchoring balloon, acatheter and a catheter seat;

FIG. 5b is a schematic diagram of a sectional view of the anchoringassembly in FIG. 1 on a section parallel to the axial direction, theanchoring assembly including an anchoring balloon, a catheter and acatheter seat;

FIG. 5c is a schematic diagram of a sectional view of the catheter inFIG. 1 on a section parallel to the axial direction, the anchoringassembly including an anchoring balloon, a catheter and a catheter seat

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of the puncturing needle and the push rodin FIG. 2 which are located in the anchoring balloon and the catheter inFIG. 5 b;

FIG. 7a is a schematic diagram of a front view of the delivery assemblyin FIG. 1, the delivery assembly including a delivery sheath tube and asheath tube seat;

FIG. 7b is a schematic diagram of a partially enlarged sectional view ofthe delivery sheath tube of the delivery assembly in FIG. 1;

FIGS. 8a to 8i are schematic diagrams of a method of in-situfenestration for a thoracic aorta covered stent by using the puncturingdevice of FIG. 1 in an aortic dissection treatment process, where FIG.8a is a schematic diagram of implanting the thoracic aorta coveredstent, partially releasing the thoracic aorta covered stent and coveringthe blood inflow end of a left subclavian artery;

FIG. 8b is a schematic diagram of putting a guide wire into the leftsubclavian artery and delivering the delivery sheath tube along theguide wire till the distal end of the delivery sheath tube is in contactwith a coating membrane of the covered stent;

FIG. 8c is a schematic diagram of filling the anchoring balloon to clingto the vascular wall of the left subclavian artery after the anchoringballoon extends out of the delivery sheath tube;

FIG. 8d is a schematic diagram of puncturing the coating membrane at apoint to be punctured of the thoracic aorta covered stent through thepuncturing needle;

FIG. 8e is a schematic diagram of allowing the guide wire to be threadedout along an inner cavity of the puncturing needle and enter an innercavity of the thoracic aorta covered stent;

FIG. 8f is a partially enlarged view of the position C in FIG. 8 e;

FIG. 8g is a schematic diagram of by maintaining the guide wire at theoriginal position, withdrawing the puncturing needle and the push rodinto the delivery sheath tube, and deflating and withdrawing theanchoring balloon;

FIG. 8h is a schematic diagram of by maintaining the guide wire at theoriginal position, withdrawing the anchoring balloon, the catheter, thepuncturing needle and the push rod and building a delivery track for anexpansion balloon and a branch stent; and

FIG. 8i is a schematic diagram of by maintaining the guide wire at theoriginal position, delivering the expansion balloon along the guide wireto a puncturing hole for expansion and fenestration.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

To make the objectives, technical solutions and advantages of thepresent application clearer, the present application is furtherdescribed below in detail in combination with accompanying drawings andembodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodimentsdescribed herein are merely explanatory of the present application, andare not intended to limit the present application.

To describe the structure of a puncturing device more clearly, terms“proximal end” and “distal end” are defined herein as commonly usedterms in the interventional medical field. Specifically, the “distalend” refers to the end away from an operator in an operation process,and the “proximal end” refers to the end close to the operator in theoperation process.

Unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used in thepresent application have the same meanings as generally understood bythose skilled in the art of the present application. The terms used inthe description of the present application are only used to describe thespecific embodiments, and are not intended to limit the presentapplication.

Referring to FIG. 1, a puncturing device 100 provided by the embodimentof the present application is used for in-situ fenestration of a coveredstent. The puncturing device 100 includes: a puncturing assembly 10, ananchoring assembly 20 and a delivery assembly 30. The anchoring assembly20 may be fixedly connected with the puncturing assembly 10 anddetachably connected with the delivery assembly 30, or the anchoringassembly 20 may be detachably connected with both the puncturingassembly 10 and the delivery assembly 30. Regardless of the connectionmode of the three assemblies, the distal end of a puncturing needle ofthe puncturing assembly 10 may pass through the anchoring assembly 20,move in the delivery assembly 30 and extend out of the distal end of thedelivery assembly 30 under the pushing of an external force once thethree assemblies are assembled together.

Referring to FIG. 2, the puncturing assembly 10 includes a puncturingneedle 11, a handle 12 and a flexible push rod 13. The proximal end ofthe puncturing needle 11 is connected with the handle 12 through thepush rod 13. The puncturing needle 11 and the push rod 13 both havemutually communicated inner cavities. A guide wire 300 is movablyarranged in the inner cavities of the puncturing needle 11 and the pushrod 13 in a penetrating manner.

Referring to FIG. 3 together, the puncturing needle 11 is a hollowneedle-like object having an inner cavity. The distal end of thepuncturing needle 11 has at least one distal end slope 111 inclinedrelative to an axial direction of the puncturing needle 11, and maypuncture a coating membrane of a covered stent. In the presentembodiment, the puncturing needle 11 is a disposable sterile injectionneedle. It can be understood that in other embodiments, the puncturingneedle 11 also may be a Touhy needle, a Franseen needle, a Whitacreneedle, a Cournand needle, a Mengini needle, a Backcut Bevel needle, orthe like, as long as it is the hollow needle-like object having theinner cavity and its distal end may puncture the coating membrane. Thediameter of the inner cavity of the puncturing needle 11 is greater thanor equal to 0.36 mm so as to allow the guide wire 300 to pass through itsuccessfully. The length of the needle tip of the puncturing needle 11is less than or equal to 7 mm so as to ensure that the puncturing needle11 does not damage the vascular wall in a delivery process and may passthrough a bent part of a blood vessel more smoothly.

The push rod 13 has a hollow spiral tubular structure having an innercavity, may be twisted by a single or multiple wires 131, and has goodflexibility and fracture resistance. The push rod 13 of this structuremay comply with blood vessels in different degrees of bending tosmoothly pass through the bent part of the blood vessel and guarantee nodamage to the vascular wall in the delivery process. The diameter of theinner cavity of the push rod 13 is more than or equal to 0.36 mm so asto allow the guide wire 300 to pass through it successfully. In thepresent embodiment, the push rod 13 is twisted by 6 metal wires(referring to FIG. 4a ). It can be understood that in other embodiments,the push rod 13 also may be made of a macromolecular material. It can befurther understood that in other embodiments, the push rod also may betwisted by 12 metal wires (referring to FIG. 4b ). It can be furtherunderstood that in other embodiments, the push rod also may be twistedby multiple metal wires having triangular sections (referring to FIG. 4c) or multiple metal wires having rectangular sections (referring to FIG.4d ).

In the present embodiment, a reinforcing tube 14 is also arranged on arod-like part, close to the proximal end of the push rod 13, of the pushrod 13 in a sleeving manner. The hardness of the reinforcing tube 14 ishigher than that of the rod-like part, close to the proximal end of thepush rod 13, of the push rod 13. The proximal end of the reinforcingtube 14 is fixedly accommodated in an inner cavity of the handle 12. Thehardness of a material of the reinforcing tube 14 is higher than that ofthe material, close to the proximal end of the push rod 13, of the pushrod 13, so that the pushing force of the distal end of the push rod 13may be increased due to the existence of the reinforcing tube 14, andthe defect that the rod-like part, close to the proximal end of the pushrod 13, of the push rod 13 bends to deform easily is avoided. Inaddition, the reinforcing tube 14 is more favorable for transmission ofthe pushing force after being driven by the handle 12, so that a higherpuncturing force may be provided for the puncturing needle 11 toincrease the success rate of puncturing the coating membrane of thecovered stent. The axial length of the reinforcing tube 14 is less thanor equal to ⅓ of the axial length of the push rod 13 so as to ensurethat the reinforcing tube 14 does not affect the flexibility of therod-like part, close to the distal end of the push rod 13, of the pushrod 13. A connection between the reinforcing tube 14 and the outersurface of the rod-like part, close to the proximal end, of the push rod13 may be implemented by a technical measure commonly used by thoseskilled in the art, such as welding, adhesion, riveting or screwing. Itcan be understood that in other embodiments, the reinforcing tube 14also may be connected with the proximal end of the rod-like part, closeto the proximal end, of the push rod 13 by the technical measurecommonly used by those skilled in the art, such as welding, adhesion,riveting or screwing. It can be further understood that in otherembodiments, part or the whole of the outer surface the rod-like part,close to the proximal end, of the push rod 13 also may be coated,sprayed or electroplated with one or multiple layers of a material toform a reinforcing sheet or reinforcing tube with higher hardness. Thehardness of the material is higher than that of the rod-like part, closeto the proximal end of the push rod 13, of the push rod 13. It can befurther understood that in other embodiments, a metal wire or amacromolecular wire may be prepared from the material having thehardness higher than that of the rod-like part, close to the proximalend of the push rod 13, of the push rod 13 at first; then the single ormultiple metal wires or macromolecular wires are twisted to form thereinforcing tube, and the reinforcing tube is connected with theproximal end of the rod-like part, close to the proximal end, of thepush rod 13. It can be further understood that the push rod 13 also maybe twisted by the single or multiple wires having the hardness graduallyimproved from the proximal end to the distal end, so that the hardnessof the part, close to the proximal end, of the push rod 13 formedthereby is higher than that of the part close to the distal end, and atthe moment, the reinforcing tube or the reinforcing sheet may beomitted. All of the above-mentioned implementation modes may achieve thegoals of increasing the pushing force of the distal end of the push rod13 and avoiding easy bending deformation of the rod-like part close tothe proximal end of the push rod 13.

It can be understood that in other embodiments, the push rod 13 also maynot include the reinforcing tube 14 as long as the push rod 13 is of thehollow spiral tubular structure having the inner cavity and its innercavity is communicated with the inner cavity of the puncturing needle 11to transmit the pushing force to the puncturing needle 11 to allow thepuncturing needle 11 to puncture the coating membrane of the coveredstent. It can be understood that the number, the shapes, the material orthe wire diameters (as shown in FIGS. 4a to 4d ) of the multiple wires131 may be adjusted according to an actual requirement or need so as toallow the push rod 13 to have different hardness and flexibilities toadapt to different anatomical structures.

Referring to FIG. 2 again, the handle 12 is a one-hand operation handle,and includes a proximal end handle part 121 and a distal end handle part122 which are opposite to each other. The proximal end handle part 121includes a proximal end handle shaft 1211 having an axial inner cavityand a proximal end handle ring 1212 perpendicularly connected to theside wall of the proximal end handle shaft 1211. The axial inner cavityof the proximal end handle shaft 1211 passes through the proximal endface and the distal end face of the proximal end handle shaft 1211. Thedistal end handle part 122 includes a distal end handle shaft 1221having an axial inner cavity and a distal end handle ring 1222perpendicularly connected to the side wall of the distal end handleshaft 1221. The axial inner cavity of the distal end handle shaft 1221passes through the proximal end face and the distal end face of thedistal end handle shaft 1221. The proximal end handle shaft 1211 ismovably arranged in the axial inner cavity of the distal end handleshaft 1221 in a penetrating manner, and the distal end handle ring 1222is closer to the proximal end of the puncturing needle 11 than theproximal end handle ring 1212. Therefore, the proximal end handle ring1212 may be allowed to do axial motion relative to the distal end handlering 1222 to drive the proximal end handle shaft 1211 to do axial motionrelative to the distal end handle shaft 1221 through opening and closingof an index finger and a thumb of one hand, as long as an operator putsthe index finger and the thumb of one hand into the distal end handlering 1222 and the proximal end handle ring 1212 respectively.

The outer profile of the part, accommodated in the axial inner cavity ofthe distal end handle shaft 1221, of the proximal end handle shaft 1211on a section perpendicular to the axial direction of the proximal endhandle shaft 1211 is noncircular, and the axial inner cavity of thedistal end handle shaft 1221 has a noncircular inner profile cooperatingwith the noncircular outer profile, so that when the proximal end handleshaft 1211 axially moves relative to the distal end handle shaft 1221,the noncircular outer profile cooperates with the noncircular innerprofile to ensure that the proximal end handle shaft 1211 only axiallymoves instead of easily circumferentially deviating or sliding relativeto the distal end handle shaft 1221, and the puncturing accuracy isimproved.

The distal end of the distal end handle shaft 1221 is provided with ahollow fastener 15. The proximal end of the fastener 15 is fixedlyconnected with the outer surface of the distal end of the distal endhandle shaft 1221 by a technical measure commonly used in the art, suchas adhesion, screwing, riveting, hot melting or welding. The distal endof the fastener 15 has an internal thread and may be detachablyconnected with the proximal end of the anchoring assembly 20 through thethread.

The proximal end of the push rod 13 is fixedly accommodated in the axialinner cavity of the proximal end handle shaft 1211. The distal end ofthe push rod 13 is threaded out of the distal end of the distal endhandle shaft 1221 through the axial inner cavity of the distal endhandle shaft 1221 and is connected with the puncturing needle 11.Therefore, during the axial motion relative to the distal end handleshaft 1221, the proximal end handle shaft 1211 drives the push rod 13 toalso axially move in the same moving direction of the proximal endhandle shaft 1211 relative to the distal end handle shaft 1221 anddrives the puncturing needle 11 connected with the push rod 13 to movetowards the distal end or the proximal end.

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 5a together, the anchoring assembly 20includes a catheter 21, an inflatable anchoring balloon 22 arranged atthe distal end of the catheter 21 and a catheter seat 23 arranged at theproximal end of the catheter 21. Referring to FIGS. 5a, 5b and 5ctogether, the catheter 21 is a double-cavity tube 210 passing throughthe proximal end and the distal end of the anchoring balloon 22. Adistance between the distal end of the anchoring balloon 22 and thedistal end of the catheter 21 in the axial direction of the catheter 21is less than or equal to 2 mm. The double-cavity tube 210 includes anaccommodating cavity 211 having an axial length and a filling cavity 212approximately parallel to the accommodating cavity 211. The puncturingneedle 11 may be preassembled in the catheter 21 by a manufacturer andsold as a whole, or may be only assembled in the catheter 21 by anoperator before the surgery. Correspondingly, the puncturing needle 11is movably arranged in the catheter 21, including a situation that thepuncturing needle 11 is preassembled together with the catheter 21, butmay move in the catheter 21 under the pushing of an external force, anda situation that the puncturing needle 11 moves relative to the catheter21 when assembled into the catheter 21 by the operator.

The accommodating cavity 211 axially passes through the proximal end andthe distal end of the anchoring balloon 22 and is used for movablyaccommodating the puncturing needle 11 and the push rod 13. (In otherwords, the puncturing needle 11 and the push rod 13 of the puncturingassembly 10 are movably arranged in the accommodating cavity 211 in apenetrating manner.) The distal end of the filling cavity 212 isaccommodated in the anchoring balloon 22, and the tube cavity of thefilling cavity 212 is communicated with the inside of the anchoringballoon 22 to provide a channel for allowing a liquid medium to flowinto the anchoring balloon 22 through the filling cavity 212, so as toallow the anchoring balloon 22 to expand under the filling of the liquidmedium flowing in through the filling cavity 212.

It can be understood that in other embodiments, the filling cavity 212also may be arranged outside the accommodating cavity 211 and coaxialwith the accommodating cavity 211 as long as the distal end of thefilling cavity 212 is accommodated in the anchoring balloon 22 and thetube cavity of the filling cavity 212 is communicated with the inside ofthe anchoring balloon 22. The filling cavity 212 of this structure has alarger cross sectional area to increase the flow rate of the liquidmedium within unit time and then shorten the filling and deflating timeof the anchoring balloon 22.

It can be understood that the catheter 21 also may be a three-cavitytube, a four-cavity tube or a multi-cavity tube having more tubecavities as long as one tube cavity is used as the accommodating cavity211 for movably accommodating the puncturing needle 11 and the push rod13 and one tube cavity is used as the filling cavity 212 for providingthe channel for allowing the liquid medium to flow into the anchoringballoon 22 through the filling cavity 212. Other tube cavities of themulti-cavity tube may be used as channels for other conventionaltreatment and diagnosis methods in the art, such as contrast mediuminjection, therapeutic agent injection or cryoablation.

In the present embodiment, the hardness of the part, covered by theanchoring balloon 22, of the catheter 21 is lower than that of the part,close to the proximal end and not covered by the anchoring balloon 22,of the catheter 21. In this way, the part (namely the distal end of thecatheter 21), welded with the anchoring balloon 22, of the catheter 21is softer and higher in compliance, deforms more easily along with theexpansion of the anchoring balloon 22, and better complies with the bentanatomical structure of the blood vessel than the proximal end of thecatheter 21. It can be understood that in other embodiments, thehardness of the distal end of the catheter 21 also may be the same asthat of the proximal end of the catheter 21 as long as the distal end ofthe catheter 21 may deform along with the expansion of the anchoringballoon 22 to adapt to the bent structure of the blood vessel.

After being filled, the anchoring balloon 22 restrains the radialmovement of the distal end of the catheter 21 and the radial movement ofthe part, covered by the anchoring balloon 22, of the catheter 21, so asto ensure that the push rod 13 located in the accommodating cavity 211of the catheter 21 and the puncturing needle 11 connected with the pushrod 13 do not move radially. It can be understood that in otherembodiments, when the accommodating cavity 211 and the filling cavity212 of the catheter 21 are coaxially arranged, the puncturing needle 11and the push rod 13 of the puncturing assembly 10 are coaxial with thecatheter 21 of the anchoring assembly 20. Furthermore, the anchoringballoon 22 of an axially symmetric structure is also coaxial with thepuncturing needle 11, the push rod 13 and the catheter 21. Therefore,the anchoring balloon 22 may cling to the vascular wall after beingfilled at a target position to ensure that the puncturing needle 11 andthe push rod 13 are located at the central axis of the blood vessel anddo not move radially.

Referring to FIG. 5b and FIG. 6 together, the main body of the anchoringballoon 22 is cylindrical and has a proximal end part 221 and a distalend part 223 which are opposite to each other and a main body part 225located between the proximal end part 221 and the distal end part 223.In the filled state, the central region, close to the catheter 21, ofthe distal end part 223 of the anchoring balloon 22 forms a sunkenregion sunken from the distal end to the proximal end, thus the distalend part has a conical surface 227 sunken from the distal end to theproximal end and surrounding the catheter 21, and the distal end of thecatheter 21 is located in the sunken region. In this way, the distal endface of the anchoring balloon 22 is an annular end face surrounding thecatheter 21. When the anchoring balloon 22 is in the filled state, thedistal end of the catheter 21 is located in the sunken region, that is,the distal end face of the catheter 21 is flush with the annular endface or is closer to the proximal end than the annular end face. Afterthe anchoring balloon 22 is filled to expand in a target blood vessel,the annular end face of the distal end of the anchoring balloon 22 mayabut against the coating membrane of the covered stent, and the elasticcoating membrane is stressed by a pull force to form a tension region,surrounded by the distal end face of the anchoring balloon, on thecoating membrane. After the puncturing needle 11 is threaded out fromthe distal end of the anchoring balloon 22 and in contact with thecoating membrane of this tension region, the coating membrane in thetension region is directly punctured by the puncturing needle 11 insteadof being sunken into the covered stent, so that the puncturing successrate is increased. In addition, as the coating membrane in the tensionregion may not be sunken into the covered stent, the distance betweenthe distal end of the puncturing needle 11 and the contralateral coatingmembrane and the distance between the distal end of the puncturingneedle 11 and the vascular wall are prolonged, and then the possibilitythat the puncturing needle 11 continuously moves forwards after making apuncturing success to puncture the contralateral coating membrane or thevascular wall is reduced.

It can be understood that in other embodiments, the conical surface 227of the distal end part 223 of the anchoring balloon 22 also may besurfaces of other shapes sunken from the distal end to the proximal end,such as a cup shape, a bowl shape or a hemispherical shape. The mainbody of the anchoring balloon 22 also may be of other non-cylindricalshapes as long as the central region of the distal end of the anchoringballoon 22 is provided with the sunken region surrounding the distal endface of the catheter 21 to provide the pull force for the coatingmembrane and form the tension region.

In the present embodiment, the proximal end part 221 of the anchoringballoon 22 also has a surface sunken from the proximal end to the distalend, and this surface and the annular end face of the proximal end part223 cooperate together to further restrain the radial movement of thepuncturing needle 11.

The anchoring balloon 22 is a semi-compliable balloon. After arriving atthe point to be punctured, the part, close to the distal end and coveredby the anchoring balloon 22, of the catheter 21 may bend under theimpact of the filled anchoring balloon 22 with the increase of thepressure in the anchoring balloon 22, so as to better comply with thebent anatomical structure of the blood vessel.

It can be understood that in other embodiments, the anchoring balloon 22also may adopt a compliable balloon, and at the moment, the hardness ofthe part, covered by the anchoring balloon 22, of the catheter 21 isrequired to be lower than that of the filled anchoring balloon 22, sothat after the anchoring balloon 22 is filled, the part, covered by theanchoring balloon 22, of the catheter 21 also may correspondingly bendto comply with the bent anatomical structure of the blood vessel.

The axial length of the anchoring balloon 22 preferably ranges between 5mm and 20 mm so as to ensure that the main body part of the anchoringballoon 22 may not be located in a bent region of the target bloodvessel. In this way, the anchoring balloon 22 may not be restrained bythe space of the bent region after being filled with the liquid mediumand may freely expand to be basically consistent with its filled shapein an external environment. Therefore, the relative positions betweenthe puncturing needle 11 as well as the push rod 13 in the filledanchoring balloon 22 and the anchoring balloon 22 are also basicallyconsistent with the relative positions between the puncturing needle 11as well as the push rod 13 and the anchoring balloon 22 before theanchoring balloon 22 is filled, so as to avoid the deviation caused byincomplete filling of the anchoring balloon 22, and then the position ofthe puncturing needle 11 in the radial direction of the target bloodvessel may be prejudged. Furthermore, the anchoring balloon 22 of anaxially symmetric structure or an axially asymmetric structure isadopted to allow the puncturing needle 11 to be approximately alignedwith the center of the punctured region. Preferably, in the presentembodiment the axial length of the anchoring balloon 22 is 10 mm.

In the filled state, the distance between the distal end of theanchoring balloon 22 and the distal end of the catheter 21 along theaxial direction of the catheter 21 is equal to or less than 2 mm, thatis, the distal end of the catheter 21 is flush with the distal end ofthe anchoring balloon 22 or the distal end of the anchoring balloon 22slightly extends out of the distal end of the catheter 21. This distancemay ensure that the puncturing needle 11 may not puncture the anchoringballoon 22 when threaded out from the anchoring balloon 22 and does notaffect the bendability of the distal end of the catheter 21. Inaddition, if the target blood vessel is curvy, the catheter 21 and theanchoring balloon 22 at the distal end of the catheter 21 may moveforwards towards the distal end along the side, having a relativelylarge bending radius, of the target blood vessel, and at the moment, theaxial direction, close to the distal end, of the catheter 21 is awayfrom the central axis of the target blood vessel along the lengthwisedirection of the target blood vessel. The distance between the distalend of the anchoring balloon 22 and the distal end of the catheter 21along the axial direction of the catheter 21 is equal to or less than 2mm, so that the filled anchoring balloon 22 generates a correctionacting force towards the side, having a relatively small bending radius,of the target blood vessel on the part, close to the distal end, of thecatheter 21, and the axial direction, close to the distal end, of thecatheter 21 may be easily corrected by the anchoring balloon 22 to beclose to the central axis of the target blood vessel along thelengthwise direction of the target blood vessel.

Referring to FIGS. 5a and 5b again, in the present embodiment, thecatheter seat 23 is of a Y-shaped structure, and includes a hollow mainbody tube 23 a and a hollow side branch tube 23 b inclined relative tothe main body tube 23 a. The proximal end of the main body tube 23 a ofthe catheter seat 23 is provided with an opening 231 communicated withthe accommodating cavity 211 of the catheter 21 so as to allow thedistal end of the puncturing needle 11 and the distal end of the pushrod 13 to enter the accommodating cavity 211 of the catheter 21 insequence through the opening 231. The proximal end of the side branchtube 23 b of the catheter seat 23 is provided with a filling port 232communicated with the filling cavity 212 of the catheter 21. The fillingcavity 212 is connected with an external pressure device (not shown inthe figure) through the filling port 232. The liquid medium in theexternal pressure device enters the anchoring balloon 22 through thefilling port 232 and the filling cavity 212 in sequence to fill andexpand the anchoring balloon 22.

It can be understood that in other embodiments, the catheter seat 23also may be of a structure having three or more interfaces, and only oneinterface is communicated with the accommodating cavity 211 of thecatheter 21, one interface is communicated with the filling cavity 212of the catheter 21, and the other interface may be respectivelyconnected to conventional diagnosis and treatment equipment such asexternal radiography equipment, infusion equipment or circulatingequipment to implement conventional diagnosis and treatment methods suchas real-time radiography, delivery of drugs or systemic circulation fora patient.

Referring to FIG. 5a and FIG. 1 together, the proximal end of thecatheter seat 23 has an external thread and may be detachably connectedwith the internal thread of the fastener 15 of the puncturing assembly10.

It should be noted that other components (such as a balloon protectingsheath arranged outside the anchoring balloon 22, a developing markerarranged on the catheter 21, a guide head (namely a tip head) arrangedat the distal end of the catheter 21 and a Luer connector connected toone interface of the catheter seat 23) on the balloon catheter commonlyused in the art also may be arranged on the anchoring assembly 20, andat the moment, the anchoring assembly 20 and other components arrangedthereon may form an anchoring device. It should be further noted thatother components (such as the balloon protecting sheath arranged outsidethe anchoring balloon 22, the developing marker arranged on the catheter21, the guide head arranged at the distal end of the catheter 21 and theLuer connector connected to one interface of the catheter seat 23) onthe balloon catheter commonly used in the art also may be parts of theanchoring assembly 20.

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 7a together, the delivery assembly 30includes a delivery sheath tube 31 and a sheath tube seat 32 arranged atthe proximal end of the delivery sheath tube 31. The sheath tube seat 32includes a main body 321 connected with the delivery sheath tube 31 anda side tube 322 perpendicularly connected with the side wall of the mainbody 321. A hollow elastic sealing member (not shown in the figure) isarranged inside the main body 321. The sealing member is in closecontact with the catheter 21 of the anchoring assembly 20 to preventleakage of the blood from the periphery of the catheter 21. It can beunderstood that in other embodiments, the sealing member also may be anO-shaped ring or of other structures having pores as long as it maydeform elastically to clasp the periphery of the catheter 21 to achievea sealing effect. The distal end of the side tube 322 is provided with avalve body 323 connected with a Luer connector or an external infusiondevice. In the surgical procedure, air and blood may be discharged byunscrewing the Luer connector, or drugs may be injected through theexternal infusion device.

Referring to FIG. 7a and FIG. 7b together, the tube body of the deliverysheath tube 31 includes an external macromolecular layer 311, a metalreinforcing layer 312 and a PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) innermembrane layer 313 in sequence from outside to inside. The diameter ofthe delivery sheath tube 31 ranges between 2.0 mm and 6.0 mm so as toallow the catheter 21 of the anchoring assembly 20 to pass through it.Specifically, in the present embodiment, the diameter of the deliverysheath tube 31 is 4.0 mm.

A method for in-situ fenestration of the covered stent by using thepuncturing device 100 of the first embodiment will be described below indetail.

By taking the surgery of treating an aortic dissection involving an archand a left subclavian artery for example, the method specificallyincludes the following steps that:

First step: first, an incision is cut near a right groin of a patient toexpose a right femoral artery.

Referring to FIG. 8a , under the guidance of a stent delivery guide wire51 and a guide head 52 of a thoracic aorta stent deliverer, a thoracicaorta covered stent 200 (hereinafter referred to as: covered stent 200)is delivered to the aortic arch by using a stent delivery sheath tube 53through a common iliac artery, an abdominal aorta, a thoracic aorta anda descending aorta. The release position of the covered stent 200 isadjusted to allow the covered stent 200 to be approximately locatedbetween the left subclavian artery 410 a and a left common carotidartery 410 b, and the covered stent 200 is partially released, and atthe moment, the coating membrane of the covered stent 200 covers theblood inflow end of the left subclavian artery 410 a. In the surgicalprocedure of the present embodiment, the coating membrane of the coveredstent 200 may temporarily cover the blood inflow end of the leftsubclavian artery 410 a.

It can be understood that in other surgical procedures, continuous bloodsupply of a branch vessel (such as the left subclavian artery 410 a orthe left common carotid artery 410 b) may be maintained by using atransferring tube, as required. During the placement of the transferringtube, the femoral artery on the other side is punctured at first, andthe transferring tube is placed into the branch vessel of the aorticarch; and then the covered stent 200 is partially released. In this way,the branch vessel still may maintain continuous blood supply under theaction of the transferring tube.

Second step: outside the body of the patient, the push rod 13 and thepuncturing needle 11 at the distal end of the push rod 13 are threadedthrough the accommodating cavity 211 of the catheter 21, and thepuncturing needle 11 is threaded out from the anchoring balloon 22 (notfilled). The catheter seat 23 and the handle 12 are in threadedconnection through the fastener 15 arranged at the distal end of thedistal end handle part 122. It can be understood that in otherembodiments, the second step also may be completed before the firststep.

Third step: referring to FIG. 8b , the guide wire 300 is put into theleft subclavian artery 410 a through brachial artery puncturing, and thedelivery sheath tube 31 of the delivery assembly 30 is delivered alongthe guide wire 300 till the distal end of the delivery sheath tube 31 isin contact with the coating membrane of the covered stent 200.

Fourth step: the distal end of the catheter 21 (in which the push rod 13is arranged in the penetrating manner) and the anchoring balloon 22 (inwhich the puncturing needle 11 is arranged in the penetrating manner)arranged at the distal end of the catheter 21 are moved to the distalend of the tube cavity of the delivery sheath tube 31 along the guidewire 300 to form the puncturing device 100.

Fifth step: the covered stent 200 is completely released.

Sixth step: referring now to FIG. 8c , the delivery sheath tube 31 ispulled back to allow the anchoring balloon 22 to completely extend outof the distal end of the tube cavity of the delivery sheath tube 31. Thefilling cavity 212 is connected with the external pressure device (suchas a balloon expansion pressure pump, not shown in the figure) throughthe filling port 232 of the catheter seat 23. The liquid medium in theexternal pressure device enters the anchoring balloon 22 through thefilling port 232 and the filling cavity 212 to expand the anchoringballoon 22, and the expanded anchoring balloon 22 clings to the vascularwall of the left subclavian artery 410 a. Therefore, the expandedanchoring balloon 22 may restrain the catheter 21, the push rod 13located in the accommodating cavity 211 of the catheter 21 and thepuncturing needle 11 connected with the push rod 13 from movingradially. The annular end face of the distal end of the anchoringballoon 22 abuts against the coating membrane at the point to bepunctured of the covered stent 200, and the coating membrane is pressedto form a tension region to be punctured.

Seventh step: the guide wire 300 is pulled back to be accommodated inthe inner cavities of the puncturing needle 11 and the push rod 13. Bymaintaining the position of the distal end handle part 122 unchanged,the proximal end handle part 121 is quickly pushed towards the distalend to drive the puncturing needle 11 to puncture the coating membraneof the covered stent 200. Referring to FIG. 8d , a puncturing hole 60 isformed in the coating membrane at the moment.

Eighth step: referring to FIG. 8e and FIG. 8f together, by maintainingthe position of the puncturing needle 11 unchanged, the distal end ofthe guide wire 300 is pushed into the inner cavity of the covered stent200 through the puncturing hole 60 formed in the seventh step along theinner cavities of the puncturing needle 11 and the push rod 13.

Ninth step: referring to FIG. 8g , by maintaining the position of theguide wire 300 unchanged, the puncturing needle 11 is pulled backthrough the puncturing hole 60 so as to be removed from the inner cavityof the covered stent 200, and then the anchoring balloon 22 is deflatedby using the external pressure device.

Tenth step: referring to FIG. 8h , the catheter 21 (in which the pushrod 13 is arranged in the penetrating manner) and the anchoring balloon22 (in which the puncturing needle 11 is arranged in the penetratingmanner) are withdrawn, and the delivery sheath tube 31 and the guidewire 300 are retained in the body of the patient, and at the moment, atrack used for delivering an expansion balloon 40 (referring to FIG. 8i) and a branch stent (not shown in the figure) is built between thebrachial artery puncturing point and the puncturing hole 60.

Eleventh step: referring to FIG. 8i , the expansion balloon 40 isdelivered to the puncturing hole 60 through the delivery sheath tube 31along the guide wire 300 by using the track built in the tenth step, andthen is gradually filled to enlarge the area of the puncturing hole 60to implement the in-situ fenestration of the covered stent 200.

In conclusion, according to the puncturing device provided by thepresent application, the distal end of the puncturing assembly is fixedby using the anchoring assembly, and the anchoring assembly is filled tocling to the vascular wall to restrain the radial movement of the distalend of the puncturing needle, so that the puncturing accuracy andsuccess rate are improved.

According to the puncturing device provided by the present application,the puncturing needle and the push rod of the puncturing device are bothhollow structures having the inner cavities, and the inner cavities ofthe puncturing needle and the push rod may be used as guide wirechannels. After the puncturing is completed, only the puncturingassembly and the anchoring assembly are required to be withdrawn, andthe delivery sheath tube and the guide wire are retained in the body, soas to build the delivery channel for the expansion balloon and thebranch stent without redoing the guide wire to search a puncturing port.Furthermore, the guide wire is movably arranged in the inner cavities ofthe puncturing needle and the push rod in the penetrating manner toreduce the number of expander components in the prior art and decreasethe outer diameter of the delivery assembly, so that the deliveryassembly may successfully pass through a blood vessel having arelatively small inner diameter and also may lower the damage of thedevice to the blood vessel.

According to the anchoring device provided by the present application,the central region of the distal end part of the anchoring balloon ofthe anchoring device has the sunken region sunken from the distal end tothe proximal end and surrounding the distal end of the catheter. Afterthe anchoring balloon is filled to expand, the distal end face of theanchoring balloon is the annular end face surrounding the catheter. Inthe puncturing process, after the anchoring balloon is filled to expandin the target blood vessel, the annular end face abuts against thecoating membrane of the punctured stent, and the elastic coatingmembrane is stressed by the pull force to form the tension regionsurrounded by the annular end face of the anchoring balloon. After thepuncturing needle is threaded out from the distal end of the anchoringballoon and in contact with the coating membrane of this tension region,the coating membrane of the tension region is directly punctured by thepuncturing needle instead of being sunken into the covered stent, sothat the puncturing success rate is increased. In addition, as thecoating membrane in the tension region may not be sunken into thecovered stent, the distance between the distal end of the puncturingneedle and the contralateral coating membrane and the distance betweenthe distal end of the puncturing needle and the vascular wall areprolonged, and then the possibility that the puncturing needlecontinuously moves forwards after making a puncturing success topuncture the contralateral coating membrane or the vascular wall becauseof an extremely high puncturing force is reduced.

In the present application, the semi-compliable balloon is used as theanchoring balloon. After arriving at the point to be punctured, thepart, close to the distal end and covered by the anchoring balloon, ofthe catheter may bend under the impact of the filled anchoring balloonwith the increase of the pressure in the anchoring balloon, so as tobetter comply with the bent anatomical structure of the blood vessel.

The push rod of the present application is of the spiral tubularstructure twisted by a single, or multiple wires, is high in flexibilityand may comply with a complicated and twisted anatomical structure. Thelength of the puncturing needle is less than or equal to 7 mm, so thatthe pass-ability in the blood vessel is high, and damage caused by thepuncturing needle to surrounding blood vessels is reduced.

The puncturing handle of the present application is suitable forone-handed operation. The proximal end handle shaft may be driven toaxially move relative to the distal end handle shaft through opening andclosing of an index finger and a thumb of one hand to drive the push rodand the puncturing needle to implement puncturing as long as the distalend handle ring and the proximal end handle ring are respectivelyoperated with the index finger and the thumb of one hand, and theoperation is convenient and quick.

After the puncturing device and the anchoring device which are providedby the present application are adopted to carry out the puncturing,expansion balloons or cutting balloons of different specifications maybe selected as required, so as to expand the puncturing point to anexpected fenestration size. In the expansion process, the expansionforce is along the radial direction of the expansion balloon, so thedefects of a limited expansion size of a tapered expander adopted in theprior art, stent displacement caused by the expander and the like areovercome.

It can be understood that the in-situ fenestration of the covered stentabove is only one use of the puncturing device and the anchoring devicewhich are provided by the present application, and the puncturing deviceand the anchoring device which are provided by the present applicationalso may be applied to puncturing a blood vessel, a trachea, or otherlumens in a human body, or applied to returning into a true lumen in thesurgery, as desired.

The above-mentioned contents are only exemplary embodiments of thepresent application, and are not intended to limit the presentapplication. Any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvementsand the like that are made within the spirit and the principle of thepresent application shall all fall within the protection scope of thepresent application.

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 17. A puncturing device, comprising: a puncturingneedle, an inflatable anchoring balloon, and a catheter passing througha proximal end and a distal end of the anchoring balloon, the puncturingneedle being movably arranged in the catheter; wherein, in a filledstate, a central region of the distal end part of the anchoring balloonis sunken towards the proximal end of the anchoring balloon to form asunken region, and a distal end of the catheter is located in the sunkenregion.
 18. The puncturing device according to claim 17, wherein theanchoring balloon has an axial length that ranges between 5 mm and 20mm.
 19. The puncturing device according to claim 17, wherein a distancebetween the distal end of the anchoring balloon and the distal end ofthe catheter along an axial direction of the catheter is less than orequal to 2 mm.
 20. The puncturing device according to claim 19, whereinthe catheter is a multi-cavity tube having at least two cavities; themulti-cavity tube comprises an accommodating cavity and a fillingcavity; the accommodating cavity axially passes through the anchoringballoon, and the puncturing needle is movably accommodated in theaccommodating cavity; and a distal end of the filling cavity isaccommodated in the anchoring balloon, and a tube cavity of the fillingcavity is communicated with an inside of the anchoring balloon.
 21. Thepuncturing device according to claim 20, wherein a hardness of a part,covered by the anchoring balloon, of the catheter is lower than that ofthe other part of the catheter.
 22. The puncturing device according toclaim 17, wherein a length of the needle tip of the puncturing needle isless than or equal to 7 mm.
 23. The puncturing device according to claim17, wherein the puncturing device further comprises a handle connectedwith the puncturing needle; the handle comprises a proximal end handlepart and a distal end handle part which are opposite to each other; theproximal end handle part comprises a proximal end handle shaft having anaxial inner cavity and a proximal end handle ring connected to a sidewall of the proximal end handle shaft; the axial inner cavity of theproximal end handle shaft passes through a proximal end face and adistal end face of the proximal end handle shaft; the distal end handlepart comprises a distal end handle shaft having an axial inner cavityand a distal end handle ring connected to a side wall of the distal endhandle shaft; the axial inner cavity of the distal end handle shaftpasses through a proximal end face and a distal end face of the distalend handle shaft; and the proximal end handle shaft is movably arrangedin the axial inner cavity of the distal end handle shaft in apenetrating manner, and the distal end handle ring is closer to aproximal end of the puncturing needle than the proximal end handle ring.24. The puncturing device according to claim 23, wherein an outerprofile of the part, accommodated in the axial inner cavity of thedistal end handle shaft, of the proximal end handle shaft on a sectionperpendicular to an axial direction of the proximal end handle shaft isnoncircular.
 25. The puncturing device according to claim 23, whereinthe handle further comprises a fastener arranged at a distal end of thedistal end handle shaft and connected with a proximal end of theanchoring assembly.
 26. The puncturing device according to claim 23,wherein the puncturing device further comprises a push rod connectedbetween the puncturing needle and the handle, and a proximal end of thepush rod is fixedly accommodated in the axial inner cavity of theproximal end handle shaft.
 27. The puncturing device according to claim26, wherein the push rod further comprises a reinforcing tube arrangedon the push rod; the reinforcing tube is arranged on a rod-like part,close to the proximal end of the push rod, of the push rod in a sleevingmanner, and a hardness of the reinforcing tube is higher than that ofthe rod-like part, close to the proximal end of the push rod, of thepush rod.
 28. The puncturing device according to claim 27, wherein anaxial length of the reinforcing tube is less than or equal to ⅓ of anaxial length of the push rod.
 29. An anchoring device, comprising: aninflatable anchoring balloon and a catheter that passes through aproximal end and a distal end of the anchoring balloon, wherein, in afilled state, a central region of the distal end part of the anchoringballoon is sunken towards the proximal end of the anchoring balloon toform a sunken region, and a distal end of the catheter is located in thesunken region.
 30. The anchoring device according to claim 29, whereinthe anchoring balloon has an axial length that ranges between 5 mm and20 mm.
 31. The anchoring device according to claim 29, wherein adistance between the distal end of the anchoring balloon and the distalend of the catheter along an axial direction of the catheter is lessthan or equal to 2 mm.
 32. The anchoring device according to claim 29,wherein a hardness of a part, covered by the anchoring balloon, of thecatheter is lower than that of the other part of the catheter.